Tips, resources, interviews, reviews for Baby Boomers who want to embrace new experiences and create meaning in the next step of their lives, by life coach, Karma Kitaj
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- Peace Corps When You're Not 22?
Have you thought of joining the Peace Corps after you leave your place of employment? Yes, the Peace Corps. The service is starting a pilot project to attract Baby Boomers, who can act as role models to their younger counterparts....
- Your Autobiography Gives Clues About How to Design Your Retirement
Psychologist Dorothy Cantor, in What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up: Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life, gives us a template for accessing our past challenges and joys so that we may be better planners for...
- Use Your Marketing Clout to Get What You Want
Marketing people are energized to promote new ways to target the huge Baby Boomer demographic. At the Fourth Annual What's Next Boomer Business Summit, experts from all fields touted the benefits of attracting this healthier, wealthier population. Make it a...
- Because of Baby Boomers Exodus from Work World, Design Your Own Post-Retirement Job
There's now a huge outflux of Baby Boomers and those a bit older who are leaving the corporate and institutional world, leaving it bereft of high-level expertise, experienced employees, and people with a super-responsible work ethic. Michael Jalbert, president of...
- Venus: Lecher or Loving Care?
This isn't the usual post for me, but I think it belongs here. Last night my husband and I saw the film Venus with Peter O'Toole as the old has-been actor who meets up with a young, but obviously troubled...
- Downsized? Don't worry. Become an entrepreneur
Have you been downsized or offered a good early retirement package by your company? Are you at an age where you find it hard to entice employers to look at your resume? Think about creating your own home-based business. In...
- Matching Your Retirement Activities with What Drives You
Do you want to ensure that you have planned for arresting, intriguing activities after you have left your work and family responsibilities? Consider what your drivers have been throughout your life. What experiences have turned you on? What made you...
I've always been inspired by people who are active and contribute to society into their older years. When I did the interviews for my book Women Who Could...and Did, I met women over age 65 who were still working and...
- The Old Brain Just Gets Better and Better
Sure, the aging brain does lose some of its functions. But, as Sharon Begley describes in a Wall Street Journal article, The Upside of Aging, older people retain many skills fully as well as younger people and some skills are...
- Finding Meaning in Your Retirement
Link: QuickPost | TypePad. Many of you have the health, vitality, and pension/investments to retire early. You were active participants in your community or your work. Maybe you were a visionary, a trend-setter. Maybe you were responsible for others' lives...